Physica A. Statistical and Theoretical Physics 1998: Vol 249 Table of Contents

8 Pages·1998·1.1 MB·English

Contents
Preface Xiil
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Chapter 1. Nonlinear dynamics
Periodic, aperiodic, and transient patterns in vibrated granular layers
P.B. Umbanhowar, F. Melo and H.L. Swinney
Propagating solitary states in highly dissipative driven fluids
J. Fineberg and O. Lioubashevski
Experiments on spatio-temporal chaos
G. Ahlers
Ordered and disordered defect chaos
G.D. Granzow and H. Riecke
Particle dispersion in a multidimensional random flow with arbitrary
temporal correlations
G. Falkovich, V. Kazakov and V. Lebedev
Excitable medium with left-right symmetry breaking
C. Dupont, K. Agladze and V. Krinsky
The dynamics of Dictyostelium development
H. Levine
Dynamics of voltage-gated ion-channel proteins
E. Braun
Morphology diagram of possible structures in diffusional growth
E. Brener, H. Miiller-Krumbhaar, D. Temkin and T. Abel
Morphology transitions in a liquid crystal
J. Bechhoefer and J.L. Hutter
Stochastic resonance and ratchets — new manifestations
V. Berdichevsky and M. Gitterman
Wrinkling of stable fronts in viscous flow
I. Webman and D.A. Kessler
Formation of periodic and localized patterns in an oscillating granular
layer
I.S. Aranson and L.S. Tsimring
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Separation and pattern formation in hydraulic jumps
T. Bohr, C. Ellegaard, A.E. Hansen, K. Hansen, A. Haaning,
V. Putkaradze and S. Watanabe 111
Kinematic equations for front motion and spiral-wave nucleation
A. Hagberg and E. Meron 118
Spiral dynamics in pattern-forming systems: mean-flow effects
L.S. Tsimring 125
On the breakup of target and spiral waves on a disk in a
reaction—diffusion system with long-range interaction
O. Nekhamkina and M. Sheintuch 134
Long-wave instability in optical parametric oscillators
Z.H. Musslimani 141
Rotating convection at moderate Prandtl number
Y. Ponty, T. Passot and P.L. Sulem 146
Directed chaotic motion in a periodic potential
O. Farago and Y. Kantor 151
Biased chaotic diffusion
E. Barkai and J. Klafter 156
Arbitrary-dimensional spike autosolitons
V.V. Osipov and A.V. Severtsev 162
The power dependence of auto-oscillations due to modulation
instability in perpendicularly magnetized YIG films
I. Laulicht and Y. Kraftmakher
Propagation of Turing—Hopf fronts
M. Or-Guil and M. Bode
Stability of non-equilateral hexagonal patterns governed by generalized
amplitude equations
A.E. Nuz, A.A. Nepomnyashchy and L.M. Pismen 179
Stick—slip dynamics of interfacial friction
M.G. Rozman, M. Urbakh and J. Klafter
Interferometric measurement of the temperature field in the vicinity of
ice crystals growing from supercooled water
I. Braslavsky and S.G. Lipson
Chapter 2. Soft condensed matter
The dynamics of reactive wetting on solid surfaces
P.G. de Gennes
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Liquid-to-solid transitions in thin liquid films induced by confinement
J. Klein and E. Kumacheva 206
Complex formation between DNA and cationic surfactant
A.V. Gorelov, E.D. Kudryashov, J.-C. Jacquier, D.M. McLoughlin
and K.A. Dawson 216
The equations of stress in a granular material
S.F. Edwards 226
Subharmonic surface waves in vibrated granular media
D.C. Rapaport 232
Microstructure and phase diagrams of polymer gels
S. Panyukov and Y. Rabin 239
Static inhomogeneities and dynamic fluctuations of temperature
sensitive polymer gels
M. Shibayama, S.-i. Takata and T. Norisuye 245
Protein-like copolymers: computer simulation
A.R. Khokhlov and P.G. Khalatur 253
Gels under strong deformation
K. Sekimoto 262
What is a solid?
S. Alexander 266
Stress propagation in sand
M.E. Cates and J.P. Wittmer 276
Interfaces and grain boundaries of lamellar phases
S. Villain-Guillot, R.R. Netz, D. Andelman and M. Schick 285
Interfaces in partly compatible polymer mixtures: a Monte-Carlo
simulation approach
K. Binder, M. Miller, F. Schmid and A. Werner 293
Necklace model of randomly charged polymers
Y. Kantor, M. Kardar and D. Ertas 301
Thermodynamic and kinetic properties of water—oil—surfactant
mixtures
D. Vollmer and J. Vollmer 307
Adsorption of polyelectrolytes and inter-colloidal forces
I. Borukhov 315
Phase diagram of microphase-separated multiblock copolymers
S. Panyukov and I. Potemkin 321
Copolymer networks: the spectrum of scaling dimensions
C. von Ferber and Yu. Holovatch
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Flow-induced alignment of rod-like and flexible polymers in the molten
state
M. Kroger 332
Winding-angle distribution for two-dimensional polymers at the -point
T. Prellberg and B. Drossel 337
Long-term viscoelastic response in physically aging amorphous
polymers
A.D. Drozdov 342
Structure and dynamic behavior of protein molecules in solution
I.V. Ermolina, V.D. Fedotov and Yu.D. Feldman 347
Numerical analysis of phase transitions in a random copolymer
A. Moskalenko, Yu.A. Kuznetsov and K.A. Dawson 353
Glass transition in random copolymers
A. Moskalenko, Yu.A. Kuznetsov and K.A. Dawson 358
Combined SANS and SAXS experiments in polyolefins-hydrogenated
oligocyclopentadiene (HOCP) blends
A. Triolo, J.S. Lin and R. Triolo 362
Model for the order—disorder transition in charged colloidal
suspension
D.B. Lukatsky and V.N. Bondarev 369
The collapse transition in the HP model
R.J. Najmanovich, J.L. deLyra and V.B. Henriques 374
Isotropic-nematic—smectic: importance of being flexible
A. Tkachenko 380
Segregation and coarsening of granular mixture in a rotating tube
B. Levitan 386
Modeling stratification in two-dimensional sandpiles
H.A. Makse, P. Cizeau and H.E. Stanley
Chapter 3. Statistical physics of biological systems
Realistic models of biological motion
I. Derenyi and T. Vicsek 397
The cybernetic genome
E. Ben-Jacob
Normal modes analyses of macromolecules
D. ben-Avraham and M.M. Tirion 415
Molecular motion through correlated fluctuating bottlenecks
N. Eizenberg and J. Klafter
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Analysis of DNA sequences using methods of statistical physics
S.V. Buldyrev, N.V. Dokholyan, A.L. Goldberger, S. Havlin,
C.-K. Peng, H.E. Stanley and G.M. Viswanathan 430
What can we learn with wavelets about DNA sequences?
A. Arneodo, Y. D’Aubenton-Carafa, B. Audit, E. Bacry, J.F. Muzy
and C. Thermes 439
Interpreting correlations in biosequences
H. Herzel, E.N. Trifonov, O. Weiss and I. Grobe 449
Statistical physics and Alzheimer’s disease
H.E. Stanley, S.V. Buldyrev, L. Cruz, T. Gomez-Isla, S. Havlin,
B.T. Hyman, R. Knowles, B. Urbanc and C. Wyart 460
Phenomenological theory of mortality and aging
M.Ya. Azbel 472
Time-frequency analysis of transient signals—application to
cardiovascular control
L. Keselbrener and S. Akselrod 482
Multiple-time scales analysis of physiological time series under neural
control
C.-K. Peng, J.M. Hausdorff, S. Havlin, J.E. Mietus, H.E. Stanley and
A.L. Goldberger 491
Fractal aggregation in aqueous solutions of porphyrins
N. Micali, L. Monsw’ Scolaro, A. Romeo and F. Mallamace 501
3-, 10.5-, 200- and 400-base periodicities in genome sequences
E.N. Trifonov 511
Interface growth and pattern formation in bacterial colonies
M. Matsushita, J. Wakita, H. Itoh, I. Rafols, T. Matsuyama,
H. Sakaguchi and M. Mimura 517
Markov processes and linguistics
M. Halibard and I. Kanter 525
Membrane curvature induced by polymers and colloids
R. Lipowsky, H.-G. Dobereiner, C. Hiergeist and V. Indrani 536
Molecular evolution modeled as a fractal statistical process
B.J. West and D.R. Bickel
Bacterial wisdom
E. Ben-Jacob
Mutual catalysis in sets of prebiotic organic molecules: Evolution
through computer simulated chemical kinetics
D. Segre, Y. Pilpel and D. Lancet
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Supercycles, strange attractors and chaos in a standard model of
population genetics
V. Kirzhner, B.I. Lembrikov, A. Korol and E. Nevo 565
Membrane-mediated protein attraction. A Monte-Carlo study
T. Sintes and A. Baumgartner 571
Protein stability and foldability—designability complementarity
M. Vendruscolo 576
Long-range correlation measures for quantifying patchiness:
Deviations from uniform power-law scaling in genomic DNA
G.M. Viswanathan, S.V. Buldyrev, S. Havlin and H.E. Stanley 581
Scaling and universality in heart rate variability distributions
P.Ch. Ivanov, M.G. Rosenblum, C.-K. Peng, J.E. Mietus, S. Havlin,
H.E. Stanley and A.L. Goldberger 587
Model of unequal chromosomal crossing over in DNA sequences
N.V. Dokholyan, S.V. Buldyrev, S. Havlin and H.E. Stanley 594
Spatio-temporal dynamics of networks of heart cells in culture
N. Cohen, Y. Soen and E. Braun 600
List of invited talks 605
List of contributors